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Five of Andersen's fellow members of the Big Eight last week countered with "friend of the court" briefs accusing Andersen in effect of promoting chaos and anarchy in accounting. The brief of Price Waterhouse & Co. magisterially thundered about "Andersen's evident desire to discredit the F.A.S.B. and substitute its own personal and private decision-making procedures." Said Touche Ross Managing Partner Russell Palmer: "Taking sides and looking to the courts will confuse the issue without resolving...
Your article on Roy Wilkins [July 12] distressed me. No single person has done as much to bring the N.A.A.C.P. honor and respect as has Roy. The reflection is on the governing body that took steps to discredit...
Amid anxiety that recent instances of counterfeiting might be a British plot to discredit colonial currency, the New York Provincial Congress's Conspiracies Committee began a full investigation. It soon discovered that...
...hindering the process of national reorganization." Harguindeguy was referring to what he called "false" charges-mainly in the European press -that Argentina has failed to protect political refugees; many of his fellow officers suspect that the murders are the work of right-wing Peronist death squads trying to discredit the Videla government...
...notion that all employees are pursuing a common goal is one that Vassia Joannidi, an organizer for District 65, is trying to discredit. Almost more important to the organizing drive than the gripes with pay-scales and promotion opportunities are the organizers' grievances about less tangible elements of the labor-management relationship. These elements include the common-goal myth and Harvard's paternalism...